The first-rate legal minds within the Bay Area assembled at GitHub to participate in EFF’s 12th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night on June 27th. Over a hundred members from Generation Law corporations and Internet agencies all over the Bay Area attended for an evening full of obscure tech regulation trivia, scrumptious meals, and only a dash of dad tradition!
After attendees had piled their plates high with hen and waffles in preparation for the nighttime competition, all 12 teams set their sights on the coveted Cyberlaw Quiz Cup. EFF’s workforce joined forces to craft the questions, pulling details from the rich canon of privacy, unfastened speech, and intellectual assets regulation to create seven rounds of trivia.
After welcoming anybody to the event, EFF’s Cindy Cohn started the evening’s activities by introducing our intrepid Quiz Master Kurt Opsahl and our judges Alex Moss, Andrew Crocker, and David Greene. Trivia was given off to a raucous beginning, resulting in possibly the simplest time an entire room full of humans has ever cheered for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and MS-thirteen, answers to questions at some point, Rounds 1 & 2.
There had been additionally several moments wherein Kurt and the panel of judges deliberated over challenges using the teams on behalf of their answers, one of which led to a finding that there were, in reality, two suitable answers to a query regarding a list of works that were NOT entering the general public domain this 12 months.